Katarzyna (Kasia for short) Budzynska is an associate professor (senior lecturer) in the Faculty of Administration and Social Science at the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). She is head of the Laboratory of The New Ethos and a research affiliate at the Language and Cognition in Argumentation (LANCAR) research group at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Budzynska studies argumentation and persuasion linking philosophy, linguistics and AI. She has published 2 books and over 90 peer-reviewed papers including 23 papers in international journals such as Synthese, Argumentation, Discourse & Society and Artificial Intelligence. Her projects have attracted over €1.4m (6.3m PLN) grant funding in Polish, Swiss, British, German and European programs.

In 2008, she co-founded, and in 2008-17 has coordinated the activities of nationwide ArgDiaP Association. Its main goal is to support the cooperation of representatives of the Polish School of Argumentation. Since 2008, ArgDiaP has organised a series of conference meetings, supported several research projects and publishing initiatives in the area.